99 Word Flash: August 19, 2015

In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that includes onions. It can be the main event or a spicy side to your flash. Think of the impact of onions-teary eyes, dragon-breath, indigestion. How can an onion add a twist, reveal a character, or sabotage a perfect day? Have fun!

Here is what I came up with:

Friends Are Onions

Friendship: one of few arenas I refrain from grappling in the gray; friends, from my vantage, resemble MMA: a relationship as real as it gets.

In a world where the word friend is tossed around at glancing images on social media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google Plus, and on and on, an individual’s depth is curtailed by a process of dolling out likes, stars, hearts, and plus ones.

A friend offers: safety to peel away masking layers, revealing your truest sense of self; perfect for laughing or crying. A friend appears to grow from the earth as your perfect match.

Share this:

Like this:

Follow my NorCal MMA project at:

Quotes

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself."
-Jim Rohn-

"Believe nothing. No matter where you read it, or who said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
-Buddha-

"If a man for whatever reason has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself."
-Jacques-Yves Cousteau-

"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."
-Thomas A. Edison-

"Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have anything you want."
-Brian Tracy-

"The "mere-measurement effect" refers to the finding that when people are asked what they intend to do, they become more likely to act in accordance with their answers."
-Thaler and Sunstein-

"Naming our fears isn't about confessing guilt. When we linger a bit longer in the details of our uncertainty and doubt, we can see the opportunities that lie hidden beneath."
-Lucy Calkins-

"I've always disliked rereading my writing. It feels good to write; why mar that feeling with a rereading?"
-Don Graves-

"The gi is a mystery; it chokes and pulls and twists around your body. It controls you: By controlling the gi, you control the man inside it."
-Sam Sheridan-

"Something about stick-to-itiveness and persistence in the face of overwhelming odds was the lesson that he wanted to impart. Tenacity."
-Art Davie-

"It often surprises kids to learn that writers, almost all writers, research something before they finish writing a piece."
-Colleen Cruz-

"I've observed the sport's grassroots movement firsthand, and I know MMA is not only going to survive; it's going to flourish, expand, and become one of the biggest sport in the world."
-"Big" John McCarthy-

"By sharing our solitude we come both to respect it and to create a door that allows us to leave and return to the essential lonliness from which so much writing comes."
-Donald Murray-

"I believe it is through the arts that we escape. The artist selects for us what is significant, what we must pay attention to, what will order our world."
-Donald Murray-

"The thing that kills me about education is that it's so touchy-feely."
-Michelle Rhee-

"There is an important "I" quality to work. It is who I am. In our society, we constantly ask people who they are, identifying-and classifying-them by their jobs."
-Donald Murray-

"Without data, you are just another person with an opinion."
-Amanda Ripley-

"You've got to continue to grow or you're just like last night's cornbread-stale and dry."
-Loretta Lynn-

"If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking him if there's anything you can do. Think of something appropriate, and do it."
-E.W. House-

"There are roughly twelve and a half hours of "last few minutes" during each of perhaps six classes in each school year."
-Doug Lemov-

"Tennessee Williams says you write about what bugs you. I think you do. You write about all the concerns of the moment, or the concerns just before the moment."
-Robert Anderson-

"Children need models rather than critics."
-Joseph Joubert-

"Believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path."
-Bill Gates-

"I do not ask the wounded person how he feels-I myself become the wounded person."
-Walt Whitman-

"Many of us love our work more than we admit. We are defined by our work the older we get."
-Donald Murray-

"The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
-Thomas Huxley-

"Under the surface of contradiction lies similarity."
-Asif Jordan-

"Passion without a plan is incomplete."
-Urijah Faber-

"I am always bored in meetings, at cocktail parties, receptions, social events; often bored at dinner parties with more than six people; sometimes bored when I am with friends, even a friend; but never when I am along."
-Donald Murray-

"If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking him if there's anything you can do. Think of something appropriate, and do it."
-E.W. Howe-

"Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes."
-Parkes Robinson-

"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write."
-Stephen King-